Today we continue the Bicentennial Challenge, a yearlong series of Saturday quizzes about
Columbus history.

The first reader to email Joe Blundo at jblundo@dispatch. com with the correct answers is
declared the weekly winner. At the end of each quarter, the person with the most victories receives
$25. (Ties are broken by a drawing.)

Challenge No. 38

Long before the 2012 election, presidents and presidential candidates were visiting Columbus.
Answer these questions about past visits:

1. Name the president who came to town in April 1992 to open the AmeriFlora exhibit.

2. Name the cigar-chomping World War II leader who accompanied President Harry Truman to
Columbus on March 6, 1946.

3. From the list below, choose the presidential aspirant who said in Columbus, “We hold it a
prime duty of the people to free our government from the control of money in politics.”

A. Theodore Roosevelt, former president and soon-to-be Bull Moose party candidate, in 1912

B. Adlai Stevenson, Democratic candidate, in 1952

C. John McCain, Republican candidate, in 2008

4. While visiting the Ohio Statehouse on Feb. 13, 1861, Abraham Lincoln received a momentous
telegram. What did it say?

A. That the counting of electoral votes was completed and Lincoln was officially elected
president

B. That Confederate forces had fired on Fort Sumter, S.C., to begin the Civil War

C. That South Carolina had seceded from the Union

Bicentennial Challenge No. 37: Answers

A. Stephanie Hightower, former president of the Columbus Board of Education

B. Maury Portman, longtime City Council member who died in 2003

C. Alessandro Siciliani, former music director of the Columbus Symphony